Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.